South Africa Seeks "Urgent Review" Of White Refugee Ruling »
Posted By newsguy2005 3 months, 4 weeks ago in News
The South African government is demanding the Canadian government review the decision made by its Immigration and Refugee Board, that granted a White South African refugee status due to racial persecution.
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mesodude3 months, 4 weeks ago
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HuffPo has an intelligent article and discussion on this story (linked below)
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A white man from South Africa has been given refugee status in Canada after claiming persecution, his lawyer said, angering many in his home country where race remains a highly sensitive issue.
A Canadian immigration board panel issued its ruling late last week in the case involving Brandon Carl Huntley, according to his lawyer, Russell Kaplan.
Kaplan said Tuesday it's likely the first time a white South African has been granted refugee status in Canada claiming persecution from black South Africans.
The Immigration and Refugee Board refused to comment on the case or to release the decision. Board spokesman Stephane Malepart said he is barred from commenting on any individual case by privacy provisions.
Malepart said the board is an independent tribunal that operates at arms' length from the Canadian government.
South African white man granted refugee status
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hyperbola3 months, 4 weeks ago
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Canada has become subject to some of the same right-wing influences as in America. Indeed, some of the same people are involved in financing the rabid right-wingers in both Canada and the US. How many Americans know that John McCain dumped his wife to marry into a Canadian-based jewish mafia circle (Bronfmann) that is ultra-zionist and supports zionist crimes against humanity in Palestine? These zionist circles are attempting the same kind of right-wing subversion of Canadian democracy as we see in the US.
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Is it anti-semitic to defend Palestinian human rights?
(This article was submitted to The Canadian Parliamentary Coalition to Combat Antisemitism http://www.cpcca.ca/home.htm )
All across Canada and in the United States, there is an organized campaign to suppress criticism of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians. The campaign is especially strong on university campuses..
One such example is the attempt to suppress the Public Interest Research Group, founded by Ralph Nader, at the University of Ottawa for their support for Palestinian human rights. Similar anti-Palestinian campaigns have occurred at many universities in Canada including the University of Toronto, the University of Western Ontario and York University.
... Over the last few years there is a concerted attempt to suppress discussion of the Palestinian issue in North America. There also is a campaign to punish those individuals who have spoken out in support of the Palestinians by cutting funding and by denying them tenure and even getting them terminated from their positions of employment.-
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hyperbola3 months, 4 weeks ago
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...Another tactic is to smear such individuals who have supported the Palestinians with allegations of anti-Semitism. One such individual was Arch Bishop Desmond Tutu. A few complaints from the Jewish community led to the Noble Prize winner being banned from speaking on campus by the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. ... Marv Davidov, an adjunct professor with the Justice and Peace Studies program at the University of St. Thomas said:
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“As a Jew who experienced real anti-Semitism as a child, I'm deeply disturbed that a man like Tutu could be labeled anti-Semitic and silenced like this,...
"I deeply resent the Israeli lobby trying to silence any criticism of its policy. It does a great disservice to Israel and to all Jews.”
After provoking a strong backlash against the decision, and a campaign lead by Jewish Voice for Peace in support of the Arch Bishop which produced more than 6,000 letters of protest, the University rescinded the ban.
Professor Bill Robinson was also a target of a similar campaign about alleged anti Semitism to get him fired at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). Ultimately the University administration defended Robinson’s academic freedom and the right to express his opinions in his global politics class. Robinson, who is Jewish, ....
http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/09/is-it-anti-semit...
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IRONBLUEEYES3 months, 3 weeks ago
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How do any you posters know the man's claims were not true? Were you at the hearing? I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO KNOW WHY THIS BLOG SUDDENLY DEGENERATED INTO FALSE ACCUSATIONS OF ANTI-SEMITISM. What is that about? This inquiring Catholic would like to know.
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